All Outputs (25)

The risk-based approach to AML : representation, paradox, and the 3rd directive (2007)
Journal Article
Demetis, D. S., & Angell, I. O. (2007). The risk-based approach to AML : representation, paradox, and the 3rd directive. Journal of Money Laundering Control, 10(4), 412-428. https://doi.org/10.1108/13685200710830907

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Purpose. This paper seeks to deconstruct the proposed risk‐based approach to anti‐money laundering (AML) and to relate it to the text of the European Union's 3rd Directive. The paper also aims to discuss a... Read More about The risk-based approach to AML : representation, paradox, and the 3rd directive.

Down with strategy: In defense of short-term thinking (2007)
Journal Article
Ezer, J., & Demetis, D. S. (2007). Down with strategy: In defense of short-term thinking. Journal of Business Strategy, 28(1), 57-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/02756660710723224

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to argue that the need for strategy is overstated and that organizations should celebrate short-term thinking. Design/methodology/approach - The paper presents a case study of a medium-sized software company in Cana... Read More about Down with strategy: In defense of short-term thinking.

Technology as an observing system : a 2nd order cybernetics approach
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Demetis, D. Technology as an observing system : a 2nd order cybernetics approach

The role of technology in modern society is becoming fundamental to society itself as the boundary between technological utilization and technological interference narrows. Technology penetrates the core of an ever-increasing number of application do... Read More about Technology as an observing system : a 2nd order cybernetics approach.

When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lee, A. S., Demetis, D. S., & Lee, A. When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact. Presented at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Following Demetis & Lee (2016) who showed how systems theorizing can be conducted on the basis of a few systems principles, in this conceptual paper, we apply these principles to theorize about the systemic character of technology and investigate the... Read More about When humans using the IT artifact becomes IT using the human artifact.

An observer-relative systems approach to information
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Demetis, D., & Lee, A. (2019, January). An observer-relative systems approach to information. Presented at Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, Hawaii

By returning to the foundational principles of second-order cybernetics and resting on the central role of the observer, this essay explores how the distinction between data/information can be conceptualized. Using systems theory, we derive a series... Read More about An observer-relative systems approach to information.